Posts Tagged ‘Sir Ian Kennedy’

A dull thump is echoing through Westminster. It is the sound – one we haven't heard for a while – of the political classes dancing on a Cabinet minister's grave. Maria Miller had to go. The only s...
Read More

In his interview in this morning’s Today programme, of all the scary things said by Gary Walker, a sacked NHS whistleblower, was the simple sentence: "If you’re a doctor, where else can you work?"...
Read More

Even after the expenses scandal, many of our MPs are still putting greed before duty I have relatively few political heroes, but one is Elizabeth Filkin, who briefly served as parliamentary commission...
Read More

It is the dawn of a new era. The unthinkable has happened. MPs have been deprived of the right to travel first class on the railways at our expense. Sir Ian Kennedy, the head of the new Independent Pa...
Read More

Perhaps Sir Ian Kennedy is trying to justify the £100,000 he could be paid as head of the new Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority. Or maybe he has only recently discovered the joys of socia...
Read More

Alastair Campbell has produced a typically robust response on his blog to the Telegraph's coverage of his friendship with Sir Ian Kennedy, the new expenses supremo. That the big-brained head of IPSA, ...
Read More

MPs didn't hide their displeasure during John Bercow's announcement on expenses reforms in parliament today. The jeers were loudest when Sir Ian Kennedy's salary was announced. He'll be paid "a maxim...
Read More